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There’s plenty of art—of both the street and gallery varieties—to be found around New York, but the two forms have merged this fall in More ART’s community works program, the Chelsea Project. To wit: Italian-born artist Nicola Verlato’s sculpture Sleeping Monster Produced by Reason (pictured) is located outside the Meatpacking District’s Apple store. (Spoiler alert: Derek Jeter and A-Rod are featured, but no word on who’s the monster.) Over at the Fulton Houses Playground on 17th Street, Tony Oursler has teamed up with a group of high schoolers for a video titled AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through With This Again?) that’s projected on a wall behind the hoops court. And up at the corner of 23rd and 10th, Brooklyn’s Anthony Goicolea has plastered black-and-white photos to partition boards and scaffolding. His Neighborhood series features portraits of locals superimposed over archival snapshots of the hood. "While we were putting up the posters, everyone tried to figure out where things were, and how to make it work," says More ART’s Micaela Martegani, who’s hosting a benefit on Monday to sell more permanent pieces by Slater Bradley and Oursler. "The same can be said of the Oursler video. The kids that play basketball love it because they recognize the kids in it!" That’s one way to make public art accessible.

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